[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 37 (Tuesday, April 9, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H1093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  My sisters and brothers, let us pray for peace in the Middle East.
  Lord God of Passover and Christ's Paschal Mystery, grant peace to the 
Israeli and Palestinian peoples. You have told us, ``When you make the 
two one, you will become the children of God; and when you say, 
`Mountain move away,' it will move.''
  Deepen faith in You, O Lord, at this moment in history; that Your 
justice and peace will bless the land that all those of Abrahamic faith 
call holy.
  Without compromising faith in Your loving providence and faithful to 
religious practice, may the people of the Middle East be rooted in the 
common purpose and the beauty of human life revealed in Your holy 
scriptures.
  By their faithfulness to the prophetic wisdom contained in their 
respectful traditions, lead them to compromise false expectations, 
boundaries and even the land of faithful parents to bring about the 
peace and unity promised by You, O Lord.
  May the freedom of Passover and the new life of Easter end the 
violence of armaments, language, and age-old sentiments, so that the 
promised land may bring forth people of promise. For this will restore 
around the world hope in You, O Lord, now and forever. Amen.

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